Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has taken suo moto notice of the alleged torture of a child maid in Islamabad, a Supreme Court spokesperson.
The notice was taken after media reported that the father of the 10-year-old had forgiven her alleged tormentors. The registrar at Islamabad High Court has been asked to submit a detailed report within 24 hours on the matter.
The case came to light last week after photos of the child following the alleged torture began circulating on social media. The police took the girl into custody after recovering her from the house of the judge.
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In a First Information Report, the 10-year-old girl stated that she had been living at the house of Additional District and Sessions Judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan for nearly two years.
The girl claimed that she was often beaten up in the house. Most recently, she alleged ‘Mano Baji’, Khan's wife, shoved her hands onto a burning stove and then beat her after a broom went missing.
She said the owners of the house would usually lock her up in a storeroom at night besides starving and beating her.
However, the father of the child appeared in court on Tuesday and said he had "no objections" to the court granting bail to the suspects. He claimed that he had investigated the matter on his own and found the case to be a false one.
